Tripp Lite’s five-foot U209-005-COM adapter cable turns your computer’s USB port into an RS-232 serial port and avoids the expense of upgrading your reliable serial devices. No external power source is needed. Just connect the plug-and-play cable to your computer and insert the included CD into your computer’s CD drive in order to launch the driver and assign the cable a COM port. Connect a printer, barcode scanner or other DTE serial device to your computer’s USB-A port for instant plug-and-play reliability.
The U209-005-COM works with Windows, Mac and Linux computers with an available USB-A port.
What’s in the Box
This hot-swappable cable with built-in FTDI chipset offers COM retention. It automatically reassigns the same COM port values to each port, so when the cable is disconnected or the system is rebooted, no additional configuration is needed. It also supports remote wake-up and power management
Foil and braid shielding helps fight against electromagnetic interference and radio frequency interference (EMI/RFI) that impedes your signal and can distort or destroy data. The auto-sensing feature solves DCE/DTE conflicts without the need for cross-wired serial cables or adapters.
The U209-005-COM supports USB 2.0 specifications and data transfer speeds up to 230 Kbps, which is almost twice as fast as a built-in serial port. It is backward compatible with USB 1.1 devices.